Judy P's Tickle Trunk

…or Jane of All Trades, Master of Some (or Mistress of Some as the case may be)

I’ve lost track of how long I have been building my watercraft. Days, weeks. It’s coming along nicely and with the second coat of epoxy on the hull it would now float were I to launch prematurely. It is difficult to take pictures in the blue room as there is nowhere to really stand back and I have made further progress since these were taken:

The epoxy is on but there is much scraping and sanding to do to make it smooth.

Side view. Don’t look too closely at this phase.

The reason I haven’t been reporting my progress is that I have been working on other things. Back when we were traveling in the spring I designed projects to beguile the tedium of interstate highway travel. I will be presenting my wares at a local craft fair on Saturday. I would like to introduce you to my new cottage industry:

and to the star of my show, TINY MONKEY:

Here he is all packaged up and ready for the sale:

and his brethren in the wings (with a few squid):

Wish I had a barrel for these guys.

I will also have for sale coffee cup cozies

and baby sweaters

So even though I have been working on it every day, the boat has had to take the back burner. At least until Sunday. Maybe I’ll sell enough monkeys to put a down-payment on that boat trailer I’ll be needing. I hope to be selling items from my website once the fair is over but not until the boat is done. Dang it, I would be long finished if I had knit me a boat.

© Judy Parsons 2014 TINY MONKEY © 2014